Historic

2001

The extraordinary architecture by Santiago Calatrava in the Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias was the landscape, and in large part the support medium, for a macro-performance based on the seven deadly sins that was created for the Biennal de Valencia.

La Fura’s third take on the myth of Faust employed cinematic language. The film, co-directed by La Fura dels Baus and Isidro Ortiz with a script by Fernando León de Aranoa, no longer opposes the concepts of good and evil, now it is reason and instinct that go head to

An immortal denunciation of war, of wars, that 3,500 years later is still completely timely. This performance, co-directed by Jürgen Müller (La Fura dels Baus) and Irene Papas, offered a valuable re-reading of Euripides’s classic.